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Stories covered on 2026-06-07

  1. Naver to Use Nvidia’s AI Models in Bid to Cement Lead in Korea

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-07

    South Korea’s Naver Corp. agreed to build data centers based on Nvidia Corp.’s models in a move to clinch its dominance in the country’s artificial intelligence landscape.

  2. NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-06-07

    NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics

  3. Starmer to Roll Out UK Job Center Tools to Beat AI Work Threat

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-07

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will promise to prevent any community from being left behind in the “tech revolution” by using artificial intelligence tools to help people find

  4. Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-07

    We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

  5. Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-07

    Notion's head of product said he was "astonished" at “the amount of people RT-ing this."

  6. OpenAI reportedly has a major ChatGPT overhaul in store

    Engadget · 2026-06-07

    The revamped AI tool will roll out in the coming weeks, according to The Financial Times.

  7. OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’

    TechCrunch · 2026-06-07

    "Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.

  8. Deepseek topped Ramp's trending software vendors in June 2026 as US companies chase cheaper AI

    The Decoder · 2026-06-07

    Deepseek topped Ramp's trending software vendors in as a paid service that US companies send data to directly.

  9. The OnlyFans Economy of American AI

    Hacker News · 2026-06-07

    Qwen3.7Max, a new large language model from Alibaba, has been released with a 1.5 trillion parameter count, significantly exceeding previous models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and

  10. We Should Train AI to Betray Its Users

    Towards Data Science · 2026-06-07

    Because the alternative is much too dangerous

  11. Why an AI 'Death Spiral' Threatens the Internet

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-07

    For decades, publishers depended on search engines to send readers to their websites, where advertising helped fund the creation of online content.

  12. Inside Apple’s Secret Meeting That Led It to Finally Take AI Seriously

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-07

    Apple executives convened a significant internal discussion, reportedly spurred by OpenAI's rapid advancements and the broader generative AI race

  13. How Image Generation Actually Works

    Towards AI · 2026-06-07

    The real process behind Midjourney, Gemini, FLUX, and ChatGPTContinue reading on Towards AI »

  14. Building a Multi-Agent System in Python

    Towards Data Science · 2026-06-07

    A recent exploration details the construction of a multi-agent system using Python, illustrating fundamental principles.

  15. Stocks Face Rising Risk With Mega AI Deals Ready to Flood Market

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-07

    A flood of new shares from companies looking to fund their artificial intelligence ambitions is raising questions on Wall Street about whether there will be enough buyers to soak

  16. AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot

    The Verge · 2026-06-07

    This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI confusion, follow Robert Hart.

  17. Sponsors especially OPENAI CODEX voucher usage for codex - openAI challange

    Hugging Face Blog · 2026-06-07

    OpenAI has announced a significant shift in its Codex model access, moving from a voucher-based system to a direct API credit model for its enterprise partners.

  18. OpenAI says "chat is dead" and plans to rebuild ChatGPT as a full-blown agent app

    The Decoder · 2026-06-07

    OpenAI is planning the biggest overhaul of ChatGPT since its launch. The chatbot will become a "superapp" bundling coding tools, AI agents

  19. Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts

    The Guardian AI · 2026-06-07

    Expenditure is growing fast and consumer take-up accelerating. But alarm bells are sounding The race is very much on.

  20. School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

    Ars Technica · 2026-06-07

    How accurate does an AI system need to be?

  21. Perplexity's "Search as Code" lets AI models write their own search pipelines instead of calling fixed APIs

    The Decoder · 2026-06-07

    Perplexity's new "Search as Code" architecture dumps rigid search APIs and lets AI models write their own search routines in Python.

  22. Her · हेर — a detective for your Claude Code sessions

    Hugging Face Blog · 2026-06-07

    Hugging Face's "Her" tool aims to streamline debugging for Claude users by providing natural language query capabilities for their code sessions.

  23. ‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism

    The Guardian AI · 2026-06-07

    Backlash against AI is taking an extremist turn, following in the footsteps of earlier techno-pessimist militants When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year

  24. UK to Buy AI Chips From British Tech Firms, Telegraph Reports

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-07

    The UK will offer to buy artificial intelligence chips from technology companies in an effort to encourage them to stay in Britain, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.

  25. Best 21 Low-Code and No-Code AI Tools in 2026

    MarkTechPost · 2026-06-07

    Low-code and no-code AI platforms now turn a prompt into a working app, agent, or model.

  26. Anthropic poaches OpenAI's second-ever chip engineer as both companies race toward IPOs

    The Decoder · 2026-06-07

    Clive Chan, by his own account the second hardware employee in OpenAI's custom chip program, is moving to Anthropic.

  27. NVIDIA, KRAFTON, NC and Reigning ‘League of Legends’ Champions T1 Celebrate RTX Spark at Korea’s PC Bangs

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-06-07

    At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents.

  28. Meet Harness-1: A 20B Retrieval Subagent Trained With Reinforcement Learning Inside a Stateful Search Harness on gpt-oss-20b

    MarkTechPost · 2026-06-07

    UIUC and Chroma's Harness-1 is a 20B retrieval subagent trained with reinforcement learning inside a stateful search harness.

  29. SKorea’s Lee Nominates Tech Guru Han as PM to Lead AI Growth

    Bloomberg · 2026-06-07

    South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated SME and Startup Minister Han Seong-sook as prime minister, betting the tech industry veteran will help the country realize its

  30. ‘Poisoned’ AI: the ChatGPT shopping scams that lead to fake websites

    The Guardian AI · 2026-06-07

    Buyers are ripped off after assuming online stores were genuine because they are recommended by an AI tool You want to buy a new bag and so you ask ChatGPT for help.